APUSH FINAL PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Radical Republicans. Answer: Congressional group that wished to
punish the South for its secession from the Union; pushed for measures
that gave economic and political rights to newly freed blacks in the
South and that made it difficult for former Confederate states to rejoin
the Union.
◉ Reconstruction Act. Answer: (1867) act placing Southern states under
military rule and barring former supporters of the Confederacy from
voting.
◉ Carpetbaggers. Answer: Northerners who moved to the South during
the Reconstruction era; traditional elements of Southern society were
deeply resentful of profits made by them during this period
◉ Scalawags. Answer: term of derision used in the South during the
Reconstruction era for white southern Republicans.
◉ Ku Klux Klan. Answer: this group was founded in Tennessee in 1866;
its oftentimes violent actions during the Reconstruction era represented
the resentments felt by many Southern whites towards the changing
political, social, and economic conditions of the Reconstruction era.
, ◉ Compromise of 1877. Answer: political compromise ending the
disputed presidential election of 1876; by the terms of this compromise
Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the electoral
votes of Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, thus giving him the
presidency; in return, all federal troops were removed from the South
and the Congress promised to stop enforcing much Reconstruction-era
legislation concerning the South.
◉ Ten Percent Plan. Answer: (1863) a state could be reintegrated into
the Union when 10 percent of the 1860 vote count from that state had
taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by
emancipation, citizens of former Confederate states would be given the
opportunity to swear allegiance to the government in Washington (high-
ranking Confederate military and civilian authorities would not be
offered this opportunity), the state was afforded the chance to form its
own state government, a state legislature could write a new constitution
but it also had to abolish slavery forever, if all processed Lincoln would
recognize the reconstructed government
◉ 3 states reconstructed under the Ten Percent Plan. Answer: Tennessee,
Louisiana, and Arkansas (went through procedures to form loyal state
governments, applications for renewed participation in the Union were
not approved by the Radical Republicans who dominated the Congress)
◉ Black Codes. Answer: (1866) passed by all Southern state
legislatures, hindered the freedom of blacks, set of regulations limited
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Radical Republicans. Answer: Congressional group that wished to
punish the South for its secession from the Union; pushed for measures
that gave economic and political rights to newly freed blacks in the
South and that made it difficult for former Confederate states to rejoin
the Union.
◉ Reconstruction Act. Answer: (1867) act placing Southern states under
military rule and barring former supporters of the Confederacy from
voting.
◉ Carpetbaggers. Answer: Northerners who moved to the South during
the Reconstruction era; traditional elements of Southern society were
deeply resentful of profits made by them during this period
◉ Scalawags. Answer: term of derision used in the South during the
Reconstruction era for white southern Republicans.
◉ Ku Klux Klan. Answer: this group was founded in Tennessee in 1866;
its oftentimes violent actions during the Reconstruction era represented
the resentments felt by many Southern whites towards the changing
political, social, and economic conditions of the Reconstruction era.
, ◉ Compromise of 1877. Answer: political compromise ending the
disputed presidential election of 1876; by the terms of this compromise
Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the electoral
votes of Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, thus giving him the
presidency; in return, all federal troops were removed from the South
and the Congress promised to stop enforcing much Reconstruction-era
legislation concerning the South.
◉ Ten Percent Plan. Answer: (1863) a state could be reintegrated into
the Union when 10 percent of the 1860 vote count from that state had
taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by
emancipation, citizens of former Confederate states would be given the
opportunity to swear allegiance to the government in Washington (high-
ranking Confederate military and civilian authorities would not be
offered this opportunity), the state was afforded the chance to form its
own state government, a state legislature could write a new constitution
but it also had to abolish slavery forever, if all processed Lincoln would
recognize the reconstructed government
◉ 3 states reconstructed under the Ten Percent Plan. Answer: Tennessee,
Louisiana, and Arkansas (went through procedures to form loyal state
governments, applications for renewed participation in the Union were
not approved by the Radical Republicans who dominated the Congress)
◉ Black Codes. Answer: (1866) passed by all Southern state
legislatures, hindered the freedom of blacks, set of regulations limited
